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Category Archives: Veterans
conservative counterpoise
In an editorial on December 25, 1868 The New-York Times stressed that Christmas was a traditional, family time in a world of great technological change, especially the transportation revolution caused by steam power. The technological innovation led to social change: … Continue reading
at last
According to History of the World War, by Francis A. March and Richard J. Beamish (1919), American commanders ordered their troops to remain all business the morning before the firing ceased on the Western Front. The last action of the … Continue reading
Posted in 100 Years Ago, Veterans, World War I
Tagged armistice, Armistice Day, Grand Army of the Republic, Veteran's Day, World War I
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decorating the mounds
Civil War general John A. Logan has been in the news a lot lately. As a Representative from Illinois he was one of seven House managers during the Impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. The U.S. Senate eventually acquitted the … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, Aftermath, Postbellum Society, Reconstruction, Veterans
Tagged Ambrose Everett Burnside, Arlington House, Arlington National Cemetery, Charles Parsons, Civil War Unknowns Monument, Cypress Hill Cemetery, Frederick W. Lander, Grand Army of the Republic, James Garfield, John Alexander Logan, Memorial (Decoration) Day, Ulysses S. Grant, Winfield Scott Hancock
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“incongruous” fourth
Talk about progress. Thanks to the global media, seemingly more and more omnipresent, we can be more and more aware of all the pain and agony throughout this world. I realize I don’t have enough empathy for all the people … Continue reading
family reunion
This is the Showing forth of the Inquiry of Herodotus of Halicarnassos, to the end that neither the deeds of men may be forgotten by lapse of time, nor the works great and marvellous, which have been produced some by … Continue reading
Posted in 100 Years Ago, Aftermath, American History, American Society, Battlefields, Postbellum Society, Reconstruction, Southern Society, Veterans, World War I
Tagged Civil War Monuments, Gettysburg, Henry Carter Stuart, Herodotus, Mary Custis Lee, New Orleans, Robert E. Lee, State of Virginia Monument (Gettysburg), William Moulton Ingraham
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Gone Hollywood
150 years ago today thousands of Richmond residents converged on Hollywood cemetery to decorate the graves of Confederate war dead. Although a riot broke out in Richmond on May 11th, the Times’ HENRICO correspondent emphasized that the city was peaceful … Continue reading
more to come
Back in April 1917 the United States declared war on Germany. As young American men were signing up for the draft and getting ready to be shipped to France, the country observed Decoration Day on May 30th. One hundred years … Continue reading
baseball buddies
Couldn’t we just have played two back in ’61? Or even a best of seven? As much as I dream about duels replacing wars, I know I’m just dreaming. No jousts or David v. Goliath for modern times. Jeff Davis … Continue reading
good rebellion, bad rebellion
Ninety-two years after militia in Lexington and Concord started the shooting rebellion against Great Britain a monument was dedicated in Concord. The monument honored those who gave their lives putting down the South’s more recent rebellion. From The New-York Times … Continue reading
another Gettysburg dedication
Evidence (to the left) indicates that three years and a day after the National Cemetery at Gettysburg was dedicated another dedication was held in the town – this time for the National Soldiers’ Orphans’ Homestead. The orphanage was inspired by … Continue reading
